Tag: english

eroticcannibal:

arkthepieking:

exomoon:

isashi-nigami:

ice-light-red:

windycityteacher:

burntcopper:

things english speakers know, but don’t know we know.

WOAH WHAT?

That is profound. I noticed this by accident when asked about adjectives by a Japanese student. She translated something from Japanese like “Brown big cat” and I corrected her. When she asked me why, I bluescreened.

What the fuck, English isn’t even my first language and yet I picked up on that. How the fuck. What the fuck.

Reasoning: It Just Sounds Right

Oooh, don’t like that. Nope, I do not even like that a little bit.  That’s parting the veil and looking at some forbidden fucking knowledge there.

@taco-queen-of-the-ocean

not-terezi-pyrope:

not-terezi-pyrope:

not-terezi-pyrope:

The more I read about linguistic evolution the more it seems like English is slowly getting more regular and boring over time as we lose some of our cool archaisms and irregulars. The internet and everything that that’s doing to language is changing that somewhat, but could we as a society also just like… Decide to bring back some of the more interesting things. Could we all just as a culture decide to bring back the PIE dual number, or de-regularize some verbs? I wanna have holpen some friendo to milk some kine. Lol

May I add that Yeet/Yote/Yoten is a powerful move in the right direction.

Further clarification:

  • I yeet the can.
  • He yeets the can.
  • I yote the can last Tuesday.
  • We all have yoten a can at one point or another.

selenityshiroi:

jonphaedrus:

queenofperv:

it-begins-with-rain:

The greatest video since “The History of Japan”

#this goes through so many stages of sounding like#the speaker has#anything from#an italian accent to a spanish accent to a german accent to a swedish accent to an icelandic accent xD#to my ears at least#aka how english would sound if it made sense like the rest of us#english can’t even blame it on ‘having a lot of vowel sounds’ cause swedish has a similar amount (or arguably more)#the difference is that swedish has a proper system and Rules#for when the letter becomes a different sound#in swedish how it’s written is what you get it’s straight forward#english is just put together with duct tape and a prayer (via @erasedcitizen2)

@patrexes

This sounds like a Welsh person taking the piss out of English for being stupid.

They would be justified.

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

spitblaze:

me externally: lit teachers arent pulling text analysis out of their asses

me internally: the reason people and especially students like to blame English for seemingly making up meanings where they cant see it is because literature is an art and art is widely regarded as ‘easy’, ‘anyone can do that’, ‘its stupid and useless’ unlike math and science which are widely regarded as difficult but important subjects so while students will readily admit that they have trouble with math or science they’re more likely to shift the blame when they dont understand a more artistic subject, seeing it as a sign of weakness that they dont get something thats supposed to be dumb and easy rather than seeing it as an important topic that’s just as crucial to their knowledge as any stem subject and just as difficult and in-depth as any math or science can be